2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha

AI can teach a six-year-old to read. What it cannot do is make that child care. That is where you come in. At Alpha, kindergarten through third-grade students complete their academic instruction through AI-driven applications in two hours per day. As a Guide, you will lead one cohort band—either K‑1 (Kindergarten and 1st grade) or 2‑3 (2nd and 3rd grade)—and shape your approach, pacing, and workshop delivery to fit that specific band.

There are no lectures or worksheets. Half of your day is devoted to running one‑hour life‑skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and how to give and receive feedback. A playbook is in place, but the most effective Guides adapt it to their cohort and create new activities when gaps appear. The other half of your day is spent sitting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives.

Your warmth earns the trust that allows you to push. Your push signals that you believe in their capacity to succeed. A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2

Pass for each life‑skills workshop, and 90% or more report that they love you. Fall short on any one of those three, and the job is incomplete. In your first year, you master the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to maintain the standard, the pathway opens to Lead Guide, where you will mentor new hires while continuing to run your own cohort.

If you prefer traditional teaching, need a fully scripted curriculum, or believe warmth and rigor cannot coexist, this role is not for you. If you have experience as an early‑elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor working with young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students.

Submit your application today.

• Facilitating one‑hour life‑skills workshops for K‑3 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting the playbook to your cohort rather than delivering it verbatim.
• Conducting daily individual and small‑group motivation sessions that ensure every student stays on track to meet weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you have built with each child.
• Administering Alpha's mastery‑based assessment, the Test2
  
  Pass, for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until mastery is achieved.
• Engaging kindergarteners where they are—with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness—while simultaneously holding second and third graders to real, quantifiable standards.
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop‑off and the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best.

• Teaching from the front of the room. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; you animate it.
• Passively monitoring kids on computers. Motivation in this role is active, personalized, and sustained.
• Reducing a weekly goal to make it easier for a student to meet. When a student falls behind, the solution is coaching the student, not adjusting the target.
• Grading homework, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent communications. Campus Leads manage parent engagement, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.

Ensure that every student in your K‑3 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

• Willing to work on‑site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA;
  Greenwich, CT;
  Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL;
  Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly…